wd hard drive issues?

[chinese_lover]

seems like western digital and i cant get along,
ive lost up to 4 of there drives in 2 yrs time,
ive had my maxtor for years and no issues as a main drive,
i just had my 500gig ata start not showing up,
but its still spinning and no clicking at all,

[MrDev]

Thats terribly unfortunate!

I've actually NEVER had any of my western digital hard drives fail even the 512mb drive from my first machine still works flawlessly.

Could you give some more details to your problem? Is it not showing up in bios? have you checked the cables? (it will turn on without data connections)

[chinese_lover]

it starts up spinning and just sputters out after a few mins,
it wont even dectect at the start up window now on bootup,
just sits there trying to dectect ata drive,
i have another wd back ata drive boots up just fine,
guess drive me be out,

[Addi]

did you drop it at all? any power cuts?

I use freecom externals, only had 1 fail on me but that was my fault, broke the socket for the data cable.

HDD's are quite inexpensive these days, so, I guess you could try to get it fixed, but it might be simpler just to get a new one?

But indeed, as MrDev says, thats bad luck old chap! :/

[WesleyTack]

I have had my share of problems with WD, I bought 2 500 gig drives last year, they both died 2 weeks apart from each other. I kept them and I will try and hook them up again when I have some time. There's nothing on it that I can't miss so I kept them in my closet ever since. My favorite HD's are def. Maxtor (now Seagate).

[nfollmer]

That's odd, because I have issues with Maxtor's and use WD now I have had 2 250GB SATA Maxtor drives die on me within 4 months time. I've been using WD for about a year now with no issues at all.